Brandon Mitchell wrote: > Dang, looks like you are right Joey, at least I can't get a counter > example working. I have been forced to write csh scripts on linux that > are run by suid programs because bash will drop it's privleges to the > real user id. So, at least is some aspects, bash is worse than others. > Any idea why the kernel does this (if it really does, I'm still not sure > of it)?
Because shell scripts are supposidly very often full of securitry holes when suid. -- see shy jo